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...said one of the first concrete things he will do is create "educational programs to help people understand the different philosophies and practices of the many different types of Judaism...
...Judaism bonded the family and set its business dealings in a context of an outsiderdom so triumphant that it dwarfed mere kings. The Rothschilds resolutely refused to abandon their religion, even as they became barons and lords as well as collectors of great Christian art. Thus it was a family catastrophe when Nathan's second daughter, Hannah, renounced Judaism to marry a Christian, the younger son of Lord Southampton. The family banished Hannah and considered her dead. The marriage seemed cursed. Hannah's young son died in a fall from a pony. Her husband was passed over by Lord Aberdeen...
...Museum, I discovered that few of the films listed in the program booklet had anything at all to do with what most consider the watershed experience of Jewish culture. "Jewish themes" went beyond the Holocaust to examine universalisms of love, death, and family within the specific context of Judaism...
...still uneasy. I knew love and death and family; it was the specific context of Judaism part that discouraged me even before I got to the Museum. I expected to be one of few Christians intruding into an event meant to galvanize a culture of which I was not a part; while I could appreciate all that I saw, I could never really belong. My grandmother gave me a delicate gold crucifix on a chain when I made my First Holy Communion (the gift is a tradition on the Italian Catholic side of the family), and it crossed my mind...
Perhaps the most abstract film of the four from the Ma'ale school was Hadar Friedlich's Fast of Words, an examination of the attempts of a writer, photographer and musician to spend an entire day without speaking. The remaining films were concerned with issues particular to Judaism, yet the issues were nonetheless resonant among even non-Jews. Yaakov Freedland's Fragments of a Dream set the archetypal figures of the willful: an army-bound son and the proud father unwilling to leave his violent homeland amid the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The theme of self-sacrifice for the sake...